Category 2020

Defending Jacob

A boy is found dead and his classmates suspect Jacob, Andy’s son, the prosecution’s lawyer who is trying to control the case and manages to hide his son’s knife, which could be the weapon of the crime. When the suspicions about Jacob lead the accusation to proceed, Andy is removed from the case and relies on lawyer Joanna to defend his son. However, his wife Laurie is less and less stressed and begins to doubt her son’s innocence, although there is no really incriminating evidence other than his activity on the web...

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The Great

The young Catherine is married to Tsar Peter, son of Peter the Great, and is convinced to start a new luminous era in Russia, bringing with her the ideas of the Enlightenment. However, it is in front of a still medieval court, where the power of the sovereign is absolute and applied without control. A riot of abuse, fornication and executions characterize court life and shatter Caterina’s reforming and romantic dreams...

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Minamata

In 1971, the American photographer Eugene Smith, famous for his services on World War II published by Life magazine, learned from translator Aileen of cases of poisoning in the Japanese village of Minamata. Sent by Life director Bob Hayes, Eugene gets in touch with the local fishing community and, with the help of Aileen herself and other activists, documents with her camera malformations and genetic diseases caused by the industrial waste of the chemical giant Chisso...

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The Secret-Dare To Dream

A film adaptation of the self-help book, “The Secret,” which focuses on the power of positive thinking...

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Dispatches from elsewhere

Peter is an employee of a legal music streaming service who can’t find a real meaning to his life. He drags himself day by day, living a routine that is always the same, in which he finds it difficult to find something to cling to in order to feel, if not happy, at least satisfied...

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Normal People

The series follows the complex relationship of Marianne and Connell, who was born, repressed, in the high schools of a small Irish town in County Sligo and blossomed in her university years at Trinity College Dublin. In high school the two seem to be the opposite: he is popular and loved, she is lonely, proud, with an intimidating act. A first contact takes place when Connell picks up his mother, a cleaning lady, at Marianne’s house: from that moment on, a strong connection is established between them, but the two are determined to hide...

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Antlers

A horrible monster with a vaguely human form spits flames capable of devouring everything: you have to start from this drawing made by one of the young characters in the film to enter the mood of Antlers: a horror that clearly starts from a peaceful and reassuring environment to introduce new and unexpected fears...

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The Last Days of American Crime

The US government has developed a signal that will prevent anyone from committing crimes intentionally, with the intention of eliminating terrorism and crime once and for all...

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Without Remorse

The second Hollywood effort of the Italian director Stefano Sollima, Without Remorse tells the story of John Clark, previously employed in the US Army as Navy Seal, who is facing the death of his wife, which occurred due to a murder. Shocked by the trauma, John decides to walk the path of revenge with no other goal than to find those responsible for his mourning and do to them what has been done to him. In the course of his investigations and his constant search for clues that actually lead him to those responsible for killing his wife, however, Clark realizes that everything that happened to him is actually part of an infinitely larger design in his story...

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Work It

A brilliant but awkward high school student tries to be admitted to the former university of the late father, transforming herself and a gang of misfits into dance champions...

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